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The runtime installation is significantly smaller than the full installation.

I see no harm in keeping it on your system. And financial programs like Quick Books and Turbo Tax use the .NET Framework to do their jobs. If you want to save space, you could uninstall .NET Frameworks prior to 3.5. And you really do not need the full installation – just the runtime installation, which you can find here.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/netframework.html

I’m assuming you are using VB.NET, not C#. I included this example in VB.NET to show how I do it. I tend to use a lot of Using statements because they will automatically close connections, data readers, etc as well as remove the reference. This ran in a matter of milliseconds. Try something like this and let me know if it’s any faster.

Code:

Sub Main()
		Dim connectionString As String = "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Development;User Id=xxx;Password=xxx;"
		Dim query As String = "SELECT * FROM Employees"
		' Dim reader As SqlDataReader

		Using connection As New SqlConnection(connectionString)
			Using command As New SqlCommand(query, connection)
				Try
					connection.Open()
					Using reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
					End Using
				Catch ex As SqlException
					Console.WriteLine(ex.Message)
				End Try
			End Using
		End Using

		Console.WriteLine("Done!")
	End Sub

I got some handy dandy solution from someone but despite the fact that they swore it was in 2008, it’s 2005. Apparently they also set up some fancy references. The bad part is when I open it in 2008, MS insists on converting it and, you guessed it, the fancy references go away. Before I spend hours trying to read code in notepad, does anyone have a link/advice/hug for me?

When you say fancy references, what are you referring to? Are you talking about references to third-party DLLs? Are you saying this was a project created in Visual Studio 2005 that you’re trying to open in VS2008? What type of project, web, windows, console?

I do not like using the conversion wizard because it will arbitrarily make choices for you about which changes to make to the code. If I have a project I want to migrate, if it’s small enough, I merely create a new project in VS2008 and add the files to the project in explorer. But first, make a copy of your original VS2005 project first.

I also think the $25 I dished out for Driver Detective was well spent in regards to Vista. It provides me a centralized location to install the latest drivers for my machine, whether it be for the graphics card or NIC. These drivers are much more recent than you will find from Microsoft.

After experimenting with Superfetch toggled on or off, I determined that Superfetch actually improves the load times of Word documents and IE web pages. It would make perfect sense because loading a program from cache would seem to be faster than retrieving it from disk. And in the end, it doesn’t consume any additional memory. So I am on board with Superfetch. I had read online from various sites that Superfetch was a dog that degraded the performance of your PC. I wanted to see for myself. I’ve learned not to buy into the hype one way or another. It’s amazing how many will form their opinion based on the bias of another.

I finally got this to work with the field codes but there HAS to be a better way

Still doesn’t work for me. I’m apparently too stupid to figure this simple task out. Don’t worry about answering this one. I’m not getting it.

I did this and it starts numbering at the second page, as it should. But inexplicably, it’s still including the initial page into the total number of pages. I’d like the second page footer to display Page 1 of 1, instead of Page 1 of 2. Sorry if I am not understanding something.

Sorry but is there a setting in Word where I designate where I want to start page numbering? Because I did add a section break for the second page but it’s still including the initial page in the page numbering.

I used to have problems with IE8 whenever I accessed ESPN’s main web site, which makes heavy use of Flash. The site would freeze up on me. I’d click links and remain stuck in quicksand. I found I had to disable the Adobe Flash Player Helper Add On to resolve this issue. I’ve managed to disable most of the Add Ons. I love IE8, but it takes a lot of trial and tweaking to optimize it. I’m finding that sites like ESPN display quicker than in IE6.

Vista does a much better job at managing RAM than prior versions of Windows. It will utilize all of your RAM as needed.

That’s a debatable topic. I’m assuming you’re alluding to Superfetch and ReadyBoost. I’ve toggled these on and off and frankly, haven’t noticed an immense difference. Vista seems to want to cache memory.

I’m not attempting to trash Vista. I have three machines with Vista installed and I haven’t had one BSOD. With some tweaks I have been able to reduce the boot time to 43 seconds. It’s not the dog that people claim it to be.